PHOTOS: Occupy Seattle camp mostly disassembled

Friday afternoon the Occupy Seattle camp slowly came down. But organizers stressed that their movement is not over; they just decided to disassemble the Seattle Central Community College camp.

“Now we can concentrate on the movement instead of camping and surviving,” said protester Marissa Adams.

She said the cold temperatures and basic survival and safety concerns have taken a significant amount of the movement’s focus. Some campers have suffered frostbite and hypothermia in recent days. There have been fights and much-publicized crime in the camp. And managing all that takes work that could be put into the protest movement.

Many at the camp said, after winter, another local camp will likely spring up.

As of about 5 p.m. there were about 20 holdouts. Some said they were waiting for police to enforce the college’s eviction notice before they would move.

A few of the camp’s younger homeless residents planned to relocate to Youthcare’s Orion Center. Still, many others said they had no place to go. And it was expected to be another cold night.

Protesters cleaned up straw used to cover the grounds and removed mounds of trash from the camp. Community college officials seemed pleased with the progress.

One protester said that once the camp is removed, it will be time to return to planning. On Monday, Dec. 12, the Occupy movement plans to shut down the Port of Seattle with an afternoon protest.